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Angry Families of Missing Russian Soldiers Want Answers From Putin
Wall Street Journal MSN ^
| 5/7/2024
| Ann M. Simmons, Kate Vtorygina
Posted on 05/08/2024 4:44:37 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Natalia Kruglova last spoke to her husband, Pvt. Ivan Petrov, on Sept. 29. The Russian army conscript told Kruglova he had been ordered back to the front lines in southeastern Ukraine. Then he disappeared.
Kruglova wrote to her husband’s commanding officers, the Defense Ministry and even military prosecutors in search of news, but to no avail. Weeks later, the army declared Petrov missing but offered no explanation of what had happened to him.
“It’s as if no one owes you anything, no one cares,” Kruglova, 45, said in an interview from her home in the Russian far eastern city of Magadan.
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Despite suffering two serious head injuries, including one from a blast wave that broke his jaw, knocked out his teeth and kept him out of service for weeks, Kruglova’s husband wasn’t allowed to return to their home in Magadan, she said.
Together for seven years, the couple spoke almost every day while Petrov, 41, a truck driver before the war, was deployed.
Their last conversation was tinged with foreboding.
“He wanted to go home,” said Kruglova, a civil servant, who has been on disability for the past decade after five surgeries on her spine. “He understood everything, understood that they wouldn’t let him leave there. He knew he wouldn’t come back.”
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: annmsimmons; gluteusmaximus; katevtorygina; may9; propo; psychomaximus; russia; tellputin; themarcus; theputin; victoryday; yasivchar
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To: JonPreston
“Please lose those horrible ideations. It makes one ugly and sick.”
Because caring about Russian men being used and abused by your government is horrible, ugly, and sick?
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posted on
05/08/2024 5:26:33 AM PDT
by
MeganC
("Russians are subhuman" - posted by Kazan 8 March 2024)
To: JonPreston
Tell Putin to bury Lenin and stop worshipping a communist mummy.
To: marcusmaximus
where are the Canadian posters?
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posted on
05/08/2024 5:30:42 AM PDT
by
JonPreston
( ✌ ☮️ )
To: marcusmaximus
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posted on
05/08/2024 5:31:23 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: MeganC
It’s science; hate causes cancer, and other terrible diseases.
25
posted on
05/08/2024 5:32:05 AM PDT
by
JonPreston
( ✌ ☮️ )
To: bert
The vladimir fan club doesn’t care, as long as they get their monthly potato stipend.
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posted on
05/08/2024 5:36:39 AM PDT
by
Eagles6
(Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
To: Allegra; AndyJackson; ANKE69; bimboeruption; Candor7; Carriage Hill; Cold_Red_Steel; dforest; ...

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To: aMorePerfectUnion
LOL. Only Ruzzian mothers angry about their missing loved ones.
Ukie mothers don’t seem to care?
Yet, Two Ukie Military Officers arrested for plotting to kill Zelensky and
other YouCraynee Military officials
If I were Zelensky, I’d worry about my own Military than angry Ruzzian
mothers.
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posted on
05/08/2024 6:32:11 AM PDT
by
tennmountainman
( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023 DITTO)
To: JonPreston
Every. Single. Time. a report like this emerges, it virtually mirrors a report that just came out about Ukraine. This from the NYT 2 days ago “Due to the scale of losses, the Armed Forces of Ukraine cannot report on the dead in a timely manner, writes The New York Times. Ukrainians are dissatisfied with this. Relatives note that everywhere they encounter neglect and inaction, bodies are identified from aerial footage taken from a drone, their deaths are reported by colleagues, but Ukrainian commanders “will not lift a finger for months” to find out the fate of Ukrainian servicemen or take their bodies. The Ukrainian military leadership is simply overloaded with losses and is unable to properly account for the thousands of dead. - ISZ reports” https://twitter.com/Zlatti_71
Its been reported numerous times that Uke soldiers’ pay is sent to their commanding officers. If they disappear but are not reported…their officers continue to collect their pay. If soldiers do go “ missing” they are often reported as deserters so their families receive no benefits.
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posted on
05/08/2024 6:36:51 AM PDT
by
silverleaf
(“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
To: silverleaf
great digging, thanks. It’s called projection; blaming others for what they themselves are doing. The DEI kids embedded in the media are busy pumping out childish propaganda.
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posted on
05/08/2024 6:43:26 AM PDT
by
JonPreston
( ✌ ☮️ )
To: MeganC
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posted on
05/08/2024 6:58:34 AM PDT
by
bimboeruption
(“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023)
To: marcusmaximus
Lenin’s corpse, eggs, Taylor Swift and eyebrows?
You’re a sicko, marcus.
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posted on
05/08/2024 7:01:23 AM PDT
by
bimboeruption
(“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023)
To: JonPreston
“It’s science; hate causes cancer, and other terrible diseases.”
Then you’re dying of cancer? Pity.
33
posted on
05/08/2024 7:02:26 AM PDT
by
MeganC
("Russians are subhuman" - posted by Kazan 8 March 2024)
To: marcusmaximus
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posted on
05/08/2024 7:03:06 AM PDT
by
doorgunner69
(When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty)
To: MeganC
Megan, do me a favor, send us Your Apparatchik. You’re becoming boring.
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posted on
05/08/2024 7:05:36 AM PDT
by
JonPreston
( ✌ ☮️ )
To: silverleaf
“Due to the scale of losses, the Armed Forces of Ukraine cannot report on the dead..." Wow. MucusMaximus approves.
Ukrainian babushkas awaiting the return of their sons, their dead bodies, their dna...or their death benefits.
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posted on
05/08/2024 7:08:37 AM PDT
by
moovova
("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
To: bimboeruption
To: marcusmaximus
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posted on
05/08/2024 7:14:38 AM PDT
by
moovova
("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
To: marcusmaximus
"Gee thanks, Dad!"
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posted on
05/08/2024 7:15:12 AM PDT
by
moovova
("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
To: marcusmaximus
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posted on
05/08/2024 7:16:13 AM PDT
by
moovova
("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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